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Snow, Climate Change and the Olympic Winter Games

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: With the impacts of climate change accelerating, snow conditions in many parts of the world vary significantly from year to year. In 2019, it received more than 86 million tourists and revenue of over RMB 100 billion, up by over 20 per cent on the previous year. What is the IOC doing to help address climate change?

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Corporations must change climate obstructionist industry associations from within

Corporate Knights

The window to take action on climate change is closing. The global scientific community now has the official backing of hundreds of government and business leaders who agree that we must transition to a net-zero-carbon economy, and yet getting strong climate regulations in place has proven a challenge.

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Burberry’s Net Zero Emissions Goals Approved by SBTi

ESG Today

SBTi is one of the key organizations focused on aligning corporate environmental sustainability action with the global goals of addressing and limiting climate change. SBTi also tightened its criteria for approved climate targets , announcing that it will only accept targets aligned with its 1.5°C by 2030, from a 2019 baseline.

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America’s Top 10 Companies for Environmental Performance in 2022

Just Capital

Intuit ranks first among Software companies for its work to address climate change. C Science Based Target in 2019 and Intuit’s next goal is a “climate-positive” one – aiming to reduce global emissions by 50x from its 2018 operational footprint over the next decade. The company set a verified 1.5°C

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Beijing's Shougang Park: How the Olympic Games Helped Turn a Steel Mill Into a Trendy Urban Area

3BL Media

In 2016, C40 – a global network of mayors taking urgent action to address climate change– recognised Shougang as an ambitious low-carbon project, accepting it into their Climate Positive Development Programme. With a total area of about 5,500m2, the Big Air Shougang can accommodate more than 8,000 spectators.

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Varma Racing Towards 2035 Carbon Neutrality

Chris Hall

Forty-one percent of external index investments are now classified as low-carbon, the statement said, noting that the original goal set in 2019 was for 35% of index investments to be low-carbon by 2025. “We Climate-positive allocations accounted for 18.2% We have focused on low-emission investments,” Varma noted.

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Edison International 2021 Sustainability Report: Climate Change Mitigation

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Our principal subsidiary, SCE, delivers power to customers entirely within the state of California, which has some of the most ambitious science-based climate change goals in the U.S. Climate Action. Edison International supports collaborative efforts to address climate change.